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Hi, Don't be a stranger!. I always hear it on TV but have no clue why one would say that to their friends.What does the expression mean? It means 'Don't act like a stranger, come and see me any time you want to'. It's a rather folksy colloquialism that is used, regionally I think, in the...

No. I do undertsnad the correct grammatical usage of the phrase 'get in' as in, as you said- 'get in the bus.' The expression 'get in!' I hear is used as slang, as a colloquialism, as a reply to something someone has said, or to something they are doing. I hope someone can resolve it for...

Over the left shoulder, or Over the left, an old but still current colloquialism, or slang expression, used as an aside to indicate insincerity, negation, or disbelief; as, he said it, and it is true, -- over the left. http://dict.die.net/over%20the%20left%20shoulder/

Thank you so mush. I've found such synonyms for "daydreaming" as "to be lost in reveries" and "to have one's mind wandering". Generally I use Google to make sure if a certain expression exists in English, for the word-for-word translation of Russian idioms, colloquialisms and metaphors of my own...

FROM: "Re: The reason is because ~" Posted 06-10-2005 06:23 AM =============== Authority: The New Fowler's Modern English Usage edited by R.W. Burchfield. Clarendon Press: Oxford, England. 1996. Used with the permission of Oxford University Press. (under "because")...